Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ne te quaesiveris extra. (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.